A collection of text graphics and related works, stretching back thousands of years. Textiles, BBS-graphics, poetry, mosaic, typography, and much more. Collected by Raquel Meyers and Goto80.

Includes formats such as shift-JIS, PETSCII, ASCII, ANSI, RTTY, ATASCII, unicode, braille, xbin ...
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Screenshots from a booklet of photos of the PBS service made by Richard Gingras in Los Angeles in 1980.

#teletext      #1980s      #PBS     
  1. teletextart reblogged this from text-mode and added:
    BBC should seriously consider releasing Ceefax versions of these. Arty-farty retro types such as myself would go nuts...
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